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A woman found guilty of the manslaughter of her two children after they drowned in a river has had her convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal and secured a new trial.

Leeanne Chrysilla Eatts was jailed for eight years after a jury found her guilty of the manslaughter of her sons, five-year-old Barak Brian Austral and three-year-old Jhulio Maximus Arturo Sariago, in 2019.

Both boys drowned in the Ross River in Townsville, in Far North Queensland, after wandering off from their backyard on February 25 that year.

Ms Eatts was found guilty for failing to supervise her children adequately, as opposed to any action she had taken to cause their deaths.

On Friday, Queensl

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